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On 3/10/2026 1:08 PM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:

Approximately

On a chilly Saturday late last month, I met Eric Swalwell at a Little
League diamond near Capitol Hill, where the Bay Area congressman and his
wife, Brittany, would be watching their 8-year-old son. Swalwell, who
was running to succeed Gavin Newsom as the next governor of California,
had been gradually rising above a Lilliputian cast of candidates and had acquired a strong scent of momentum in the race.

“Impeccable timing for you,” he’d texted me on my drive over. He attached a just-published Washington Post article reporting that FBI
Director Kash Patel was seeking to release files relating to a
decade-old investigation into Swalwell that had turned up no evidence of wrongdoing. If true, the Post story presented a publicity godsend to Swalwell’s campaign, further elevating his status as a nemesis of the vindictive president.

The family-guy tableau of the Little League game felt consistent with
the wholesome image that the campaign had been straining to project of
late, for reasons that would become clear soon enough. Our interview
occurred on the same weekend that Swalwell released a video of him and Brittany holding hands on a boardwalk stroll, while she called him a
“really great dad” and a “really good husband.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/california-governor-campaign-swalwell/686844/
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